> stephanie: listen, i am talking with ed asner and i am still not torturing you with my mary tyler moore impression. approximate >> don't do it now. >> stephanie: i won't. tell us about autism and how you got involved and why? >> well, it started off with my having a son who was autistic -- a high-functioning autistic, and then that was followed by my older son, matthew, the executive director i told you about, then having his younger son be a -- on the spectrum of autism and we both have just participated in the activity, and have tried to arouse interest, and i must say that i -- i am delighted and pleased and amazed at -- at how people are responding to autism and that something that nobody new anything about five ten years ago, by god, the world is aware of it now. >> stephanie: yeah, you have been working for great causes for so long. did you see the spectacle on the senate floor of bob dole in his wheelchair. >> wasn't that amazing the way his fellow republicans shafted him? >> stephanie: yeah. you must have been almost giddy with these election results. >> well, i'm giddy but i'm